Samuel C. Pomeroy

Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (3 January 1816-27 August 1891) was a US Senator from Kansas (R) from 4 April 1861 to 3 March 1873, preceding John J. Ingalls.

Biography
Samuel Clarke Pomeroy was born in Southampton, Massachusetts in 1816, and he became an abolitionist and an affiliate of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. In 1854, he led a group of settlers to found Lawrence, Kansas, and, in 1861, he was elected as one of his state's inaugural US Senators, serving as a Republican. In 1880, he was John W. Phelps' presidential running mate on the ticket of the short-lived revival of the Anti-Masonic Party. He went on to serve as the President of the Atcheson, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad, overseeing the railroad's construction and operations.